The Obama-Clinton Administration

“It’s not important to be perfect here, it’s important to act, to
move, to start the ball rolling, to claim the evident advantages that
all these plans agree with, and whatever they can get the votes for,
I’m gonna support. I think it is
good politics to pass this and to pass this as soon as they can. But I
think the most important thing is it is the right thing for America.
The worst thing to do is nothing," - president Bill Clinton, on the Hill today.

How many of us a year ago would have foreseen the fusion of the Clinton and Obama brands in this administration? It speaks well of both parties, it seems to me. And Hillary's globe-trotting role as a new kind of public diplomacy secretary-of-state is one the more astonishing things in the last nine months. What she did in Pakistan was quite something.

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